Flowers for Algernon is the first solo album by Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese singer Kyosuke Himuro

Kyosuke Himuro

is a popular Japanese singer. He was a member of the rock group Boøwy from 1981 to 1988. After the group disbanded he started a successful solo career. In 2003, HMV Japan ranked Himuro at number 76 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts...

. Japanese rock group Boøwy

Boøwy

Boøwy was a Japanese rock group consisting of Kyosuke Himuro , Tomoyasu Hotei , Tsunematsu Matsui and Makoto Takahashi . They were a rock band that reached legendary status in Japan during the 1980s...

, to which he once belonged, disbanded and this album was released as his solo debut five months later.

Track listing

1. "Angel"
2. "Roxy"
3. "Love & Game"
4. "Dear Algernon"
5. "Sex & Clash & Rock 'n' Roll"
6. "Alison"
7. "Shadow Boxer"
8. "Taste of Money"
9. "Stranger"
10. "Pussy Cat"

Episode

Himuro was influenced by the novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 "Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960...

" and composed his second single "Dear Algernon".

Incidentally, the lyricist of the album's last song "Hitori Fascism" is folk musician Shigeru Izumiya

Shigeru Izumiya

Shigeru Izumiya is a Japanese poet, folk singer, actor, tarento. He established record company "For Life Records" with Takuro Yoshida, Yosui Inoue, Hitoshi Komuro in 1975...

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